…By Wednesday evening, the National Weather Service office in Great Falls had recorded 13 inches of snow for the day — that’s on top of 8 inches from the previous day — and the flakes were still falling.

The previous high for snowfall on April 29 in the city was 5.4 inches, set way back in 1913.

“So we broke that record pretty handily,” said Jerome Saucier, operation program leader for the NWS Great Falls office…